Hal Herring, host of the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcast, holds a shed discovered during a prescribed fire. Submitted photo If you want to hook someone into hunting, you need to make it fun.

Hunting for shed antlers has become such a popular activity in recent years that Colorado Parks and Wildlife has to warn collectors not to hunt before the season starts. Shed antlers are antlers ...

Antlers are a big reason why many hunt for deer and elk. I’m not saying it’s right, but it is the truth. The desire for big bucks continues to increase as the number of big bucks also increases on the ...

Deer and elk antlers are encased with a soft, skin-like material that is commonly referred to as velvet that is present from ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Hunting for shedded deer and elk antlers is becoming an increasingly popular hobby, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has said. While some “shed hunters” search for ...

CHAPMANVILLE, W.Va. — A lot of West Virginia deer hunters spend the down months of January, February, and some of the month of March wandering through the state’s hills and hollows hoping to spot shed ...

Deer and elk lose weight in the winter, but it's not all from the waistline. Wild ungulates also drop a few pounds of antlers each winter, with deer losing their antlers beginning in late January and ...

Apr. 3—Reyes Salazar remembers the stillness of the mountains when he began religiously searching for elk and deer antlers in the wild a little over 10 years ago. "It was real quiet," recalled Salazar ...

FOREST RIVER, N.D. – If this was a baseball game, the regular starters would have been absent, only to be replaced by three rookie fill-ins who came off the bench to take their place. It wasn’t a ...

The pursuit of deer in Pennsylvania doesn’t end when hunting seasons close. Many deer enthusiasts spend time in the woods during offseasons scouting for deer, using trail cameras and looking for ...

If you want to hook someone into hunting, you need to make it fun. Sitting still for hours on end in the freezing cold, hushing them to be quieter, is likely not the best way to build a hunter. Start ...